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In this paper, we study a large-scale multi-agent minimax optimization problem, which models many interesting applications in statistical learning and game theory, including Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The overall objective is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Zhenyu Sun , Ermin Wei

In recent years, federated minimax optimization has attracted growing interest due to its extensive applications in various machine learning tasks. While Smoothed Alternative Gradient Descent Ascent (Smoothed-AGDA) has proved its success in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-22 Wei Shen , Minhui Huang , Jiawei Zhang , Cong Shen

We study the unconstrained and the minimax saddle point variants of the convex multi-stage stochastic programming problem, where consecutive decisions are coupled through the objective functions, rather than through the constraints. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Junhui Zhang , Patrick Jaillet

Stochastic compositional minimax problems are prevalent in machine learning, yet there are only limited established on the convergence of this class of problems. In this paper, we propose a formal definition of the stochastic compositional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Yuyang Deng , Fuli Qiao , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Stochastic nonconvex minimax problems have attracted wide attention in machine learning, signal processing and many other fields in recent years. In this paper, we propose an accelerated first-order regularized momentum descent ascent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Huiling Zhang , Zi Xu

Min-max saddle point games appear in a wide range of applications in machine leaning and signal processing. Despite their wide applicability, theoretical studies are mostly limited to the special convex-concave structure. While some recent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-19 Babak Barazandeh , Meisam Razaviyayn

This work introduces a moving anchor acceleration technique to extragradient algorithms for smooth structured minimax problems. The moving anchor is introduced as a generalization of the original algorithmic anchoring framework, i.e. the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-03 James K. Alcala , Yat Tin Chow , Mahesh Sunkula

In the paper, we study a class of useful minimax problems on Riemanian manifolds and propose a class of effective Riemanian gradient-based methods to solve these minimax problems. Specifically, we propose an effective Riemannian gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Feihu Huang , Shangqian Gao

In this paper, we consider a class of nonconvex-linear minimax problems on Riemannian manifolds, which find wide applications in machine learning and signal processing. For solving this class of problems, we develop a flexible Riemannian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Meng Xu , Bo Jiang , Ya-Feng Liu , Anthony Man-Cho So

Modern minimax problems, such as generative adversarial network and adversarial training, are often under a nonconvex-nonconcave setting, and developing an efficient method for such setting is of interest. Recently, two variants of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-22 Sucheol Lee , Donghwan Kim

Gradient descent ascent (GDA), the simplest single-loop algorithm for nonconvex minimax optimization, is widely used in practical applications such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and adversarial training. Albeit its desirable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Junchi Yang , Antonio Orvieto , Aurelien Lucchi , Niao He

We study the combination of proximal gradient descent with multigrid for solving a class of possibly nonsmooth strongly convex optimization problems. We propose a multigrid proximal gradient method called MGProx, which accelerates the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Andersen Ang , Hans De Sterck , Stephen Vavasis

We consider a generic convex-concave saddle point problem with separable structure, a form that covers a wide-ranged machine learning applications. Under this problem structure, we follow the framework of primal-dual updates for saddle…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-15 Zhanxing Zhu , Amos J. Storkey

Recently, minimax optimization received renewed focus due to modern applications in machine learning, robust optimization, and reinforcement learning. The scale of these applications naturally leads to the use of first-order methods.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Saeed Hajizadeh , Haihao Lu , Benjamin Grimmer

Despite remarkable empirical success, the training dynamics of generative adversarial networks (GAN), which involves solving a minimax game using stochastic gradients, is still poorly understood. In this work, we analyze last-iterate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Ernest K. Ryu , Kun Yuan , Wotao Yin

Unlike nonconvex optimization, where gradient descent is guaranteed to converge to a local optimizer, algorithms for nonconvex-nonconcave minimax optimization can have topologically different solution paths: sometimes converging to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Benjamin Grimmer , Haihao Lu , Pratik Worah , Vahab Mirrokni

Minimax problems have recently attracted a lot of research interests. A few efforts have been made to solve decentralized nonconvex strongly-concave (NCSC) minimax-structured optimization; however, all of them focus on smooth problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Yangyang Xu

The Gradient Descent-Ascent (GDA) algorithm, designed to solve minimax optimization problems, takes the descent and ascent steps either simultaneously (Sim-GDA) or alternately (Alt-GDA). While Alt-GDA is commonly observed to converge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Jaewook Lee , Hanseul Cho , Chulhee Yun

Minimax optimization problems have attracted significant attention in recent years due to their widespread application in numerous machine learning models. To solve the minimax problem, a wide variety of stochastic optimization methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Hongchang Gao

In this paper we study the convex-concave saddle-point problem $\min_x \max_y f(x) + y^T \mathbf{A} x - g(y)$, where $f(x)$ and $g(y)$ are smooth and convex functions. We propose an Accelerated Primal-Dual Gradient Method (APDG) for solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Dmitry Kovalev , Alexander Gasnikov , Peter Richtárik